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 Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:55 pm
Here's a question for those of you who suffer from anxiety. Just how anxious are you? How does it limit you? Rate your anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being OMG JUST KILL ME! How often are you like this? How does your scale vary? I'm mostly interested in the your frequency and severity.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:53 pm
I think I'm a pretty high strung person, but at the same time it's the way I always have been and like to be, so it's not really a problem. So before exams and stuff I'll work myself up to maybe a seven on the scale. The only time it gets worse is if I get in an argument with a loved one. But such anxiety problems are always contextual and usually short. On my average day I might get up to five once or twice for a few minutes due to whatever life throws at me. My symptoms cause a lot of fear reactions, but I don't really count that as anxiety so much. Most of the time, since I'm a high strung kind of person, I probably live around the two or three zone of the scale.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:42 am
Quote: Here's a question for those of you who suffer from anxiety. Just how anxious are you? How does it limit you? Darialan Love, are you asking just people who are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, or just any of us who have some anxiety?
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:17 am
Primarily people that were diagnosed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:05 am
Darialan Love Primarily people that were diagnosed. Oh, whoops. I answer all questions, whether they're directed toward me or not!
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:48 am
Quote: Primarily people that were diagnosed. Thanks for the clarification. Quote: Oh, whoops. I answer all questions, whether they're directed toward me or not! I'm the opposite. I have a tendency to inadvertantly ignore people because I don't realize they're addressing me. Anyway.. sorry for the interruption! smile
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:40 pm
On a day-to-day basis, I'm probably a 2 or 3. Without my meds I'd vary from 4 to 7 depending on the situation, and when I have a panic attack...well, probably not a 10, but I think 9 would be accurate.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:42 am
With me, I can be anywhere between 3-5 most of the time. Lately it's been more like 4-7. The doctor upped my medication to bring it down from 7. Seven is quite bad. Right now i'd say I'm at a 4. Later I'll probably be like 6 or 7. It always seems to affect me more in the late afternoon-evening. I usually just remind myself that it's jsut a feeling and something I can deal with and that most of the time it's irrational.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:38 pm
Darialan Love With me, I can be anywhere between 3-5 most of the time. Lately it's been more like 4-7. The doctor upped my medication to bring it down from 7. Seven is quite bad. Right now i'd say I'm at a 4. Later I'll probably be like 6 or 7. It always seems to affect me more in the late afternoon-evening. I usually just remind myself that it's jsut a feeling and something I can deal with and that most of the time it's irrational. I've found similar things work for me (I don't have a disorder though). If I say to myself 'I am having a panic attack', they are usually less severe, because I can do something about it when I realise I'm having one.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:14 pm
I vary widely. On a day-to-day basis, I'd say I'm around a 6 or so.. 6.5 probably. But every so often, I'll have a little fit, and get very anxious and emotional (9-10). Also, once in a blue moon, I have an extraordinarily good day, I'd say, around a 4.7.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:47 am
My general anxiety is so bad that it is hard to think straight all the time - my anxiety really cripples me because i cant do normal stuff like go shopping without a complete hissy fit have to go last thing at night when its quiet but even then.
So on a good day 5
Bad day 8 or 9
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:48 pm
im not diagnosed, but my anxiety gets so bad i cant hang with friends, i can come out of my room, and i HATE going out in public......i always am so anxious about doin anything in public.....its horrible but my mom thinks that being out in public more will help but it just kills me. on an average my anxiety is 7-9, on a bad day its a 10 and on good days its 4-6.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:19 pm
I'm pretty anxious and nervous all the time sweatdrop thats why they call it General Anxiety Disorder (officially diagnosed).
I'd say I stick around level 5 most of the time. Because I am always thinking of something, or I am doing something and I have to be sure to try and do it right, and I dont want to offend anyone and it just gets jumbled up in my head and stresses me out. I do try and positive because that helps me feel better to try and think better, but I'm still constantly worrying about everything, everything!
I'm most relaxed when I'm hanging out with my BF right before we go to sleep. I still will have thoughts going around in my head that I cant get rid of but at night next to my love I can slip down to a 2 or maybe even a really mellow 1. But thats like an hour or so a day for falling alseep? Not much mello time at all.
I would personally express a 10 for myself as a panic attack (yes I get those too sweatdrop ). A 10 migth happen usually once a week. Eventually I'll over worry about something and just break down. This week has been especially stressful for me though because I'm staining the outside of my parent's house...and I am scared of ladders which I need to use. I'm just worried they will break because I've been on ladders when they broke before and that was anything but fun. If I could I'd repel from the roof then use the ladder (but I dont have any equipment like that).
I worry too much. eek
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:53 pm
I'll be very honest. I've been diagnosed with moderate-severe Depression and Anxiety, but...I Don't even know what Anxiety is. I wish the Psychologist/Psychiatrist (which ever one it was...the one that prescribes stuff) had explained things better.
But if its anything like what Dorg said, I think I'd be somewhere between 5-8.
Things rack through my brains so fast and so often that I can't sit still most days. Or go to sleep. Or even sometimes lay down...I'm worried that I forgot to do something really important. But I never know what.
They've put me on medications (cause of the depression) and its helped a little...
I still really don't know what to do.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:03 pm
Extreme Anxiety Disorder = No fun for LuckieDuckie
Sometimes I'll lie in my bed for days worrying about things too far out of my control
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